So, I'm in a really great mood today, because I found out that i got my degree and I got the diploma today in the mail had to do a little happy dance in front of my new neighbors, can you say awkward? Anyways, since I'm in such a great mood, I'll give you all a new chapter. This chapter includes quite a bit of re-editing from the original to include a bigger blow up from Bella. You get to meet Alice and Emmett in this chapter. I've also managed to work Rosalie into the story and I've really loved writing her, her mouth is pretty vulgar and hilarious. But you won't get to see her for another chapter or two, but you've been warned.
I'll tell you know that I'm working on chapter 17 at the moment, but I think I'm going to go in another direction with the birth scenes. I guess here's a question, would you rather have the birth scene be one chapter or multiple? I am thinking about adding memories of Bella and Edward into the birth, what do you, my readers think?
I hope I'm keeping you all entertained and wish me luck because I'm trying to get a job at a television station at Mizzou, so I'm getting nervous about that.
On that note, I'm going to let you all go and I'm going to head out and do some more job hunting, so hopefully I'll see you in a week, unless I get that job, than I'm moving and who knows when I'll be back on.
Enjoy!
Oh, holy, fuck! Married! No, no, no! Me, married, at seventeen, to my teacher? No way Jose!
"Married?" I frowned, thinking my father was joking, but why would I be allowed to have a joke with all the shit that I'm in currently.
"Yes, married," Edward said. "I'm an honorable man and I refuse to have my child born out of wedlock."
"You and Edward will be married on your birthday," Charlie said and I knew the conversation was over for him by the tone in his voice.
"I'm speaking with the super tonight about the things, I called my lawyer during my break, if the school attempts to fire me, he will inform them that they can't due to the fact that I am a family friend and have known you for more years than I've been employed at the school. Secondly, you were not my student when we conceived; my lawyer will make sure they don't fire me."
"What about orchestra," I said that class was about the only one that I really cared about and not just because of the teacher.
"I don't know, but I'm sure you are talented, so I'll push that you don't get pulled out of the class."
I noticed that my brother was staying out of this, I wished Jasper would jump in, he could normally calm me down, but of course, I was worried he'd start cussing Edward out and I was glad that he was keeping his mouth shut.
"Bella," Edward said. "Are you okay?"
That was it, the three words that tipped the scale, I saw red and knew I couldn't in my right mind do what they were asking me to do.
"Aww… cue sappy music in my fucking head. You are pretending to worry about me," I snapped. "Am I okay? Am I fucking okay? No, I'm being forced to marry the guy I stupidly crawled into bed with and just happened to conceive the best thing of my fucking life. She is my world. You are the asshole who is forcing me to marry you. I refuse to sleep in the same fucking room as you, asshole! You're a caveman! You're an overbearing, egotistical fuck face!"
I'm pretty sure my mouth was on auto-pilot as I screamed at the guys. I must say though, that my brother looked amused at the whole ordeal, while my father and Edward were shocked at my little outburst.
"What if I refuse? I mean, do I get a say in this at all or are you simply saying that I have to because I'm preggers? That's like so a million years ago when women were forced to be married. I get that you are old school, all three of you, but I'm not, I'm not in my twenties, I was born in the 90's, I know my rights when I turn eighteen, I can vote, get married, do whatever I damn well please, Charlie, I will move to Renee's if this is forced."
"You've been upstairs a long time," Charlie said, showing no emotion on his face, I threw him a nasty glare. "Edward and I called Renee, she agrees."
"Evil father said what?" I said, my jaw slack and my eyes bulging. "Scatterbrained mother of mine said what?"
"She whole heartedly agrees," Edward said, a small smirk on his face. "She feels that her grandchild should be raised with a mother and father, together."
"So we fucking co-parent, I do my own thing, you do your own thing," I screamed. "I swear if this is forced upon me, I'll take my daughter and never look back."
"Bella," Jasper broke his silence. "Be reasonable, do you really want your little girl to be raised by yourself, Edward is offering you stability, a fallback plan, a place to raise her so she'll always have a roof over her head. Could you really run away from us and try raising her on your own?"
"I'd do fine," I spat. "Edward still treats me like I'm that little girl that he'd help do homework with, Jazz. The first time he saw me, looking like this, he went strait into the legal aspect. No, how are you dealing, no what can I do for you. He threatened court. Jazz, the first time you and Alice did it, where you like that, all it's done and over with and no looking back or did you call her, ask how she was doing."
"Al and I are different, we were in a serious relationship, Bells. I see your point though, but you didn't exactly get ahold of us either," Jasper said with pelading eyes.
My brother really wanted me to accept this, this easy way out, but I was to scared to, I couldn't go down without a fight, even though I knew what I'd ultimately have to do, I'd do it, with as little bitching and fussing as possible.
"He's a teacher, Jazz," I said, realizing that I was looking directly at my brother, pleading with him, Edward and Charlie set off in the back just absorbing what I was saying. "I'm a student and as of today, I'm his student."
"Bells, think of your daughter," Edward muttered and for the first time his words weren't selfish, he hadn't said our daughter or his daughter, he'd said mine.
Could I really allow my little girl to grow up without Edward, had that always been my plan, I hadn't thought about anything further than the delivery. I hadn't thought about how my life would be effected, it still hadn't hit home for me, I still didn't know how to deal with this, I mean, where would the baby and I stay, I didn't know if Charlie would have me live at his place, or if Renee would allow me to move back to her place after the baby was born.
I had a crappy part time job at the local outdoors store, but it wouldn't cover all the expenses I had, I'd need housing and food for both the child and I, I had no way to deal with all of this by myself. Edward was right, there wasn't much I could do by myself, at least not yet.
I didn't want to lean on my parents, not in the long run, but at the moment that was all I could think about. Clearly I had some growing up to do and I had to do it in less than three months when my daughter joined my world.
"I also don't want anybody to know about this," I said.
I knew I was defeated, so now I was making sure that my reputation wasn't torn down with the spectacle about to happen. I realized this was the only way my daughter would be cared for, I didn't care what happened to me, now I had to think about my daughter, she was my world, my light, I had to make sure she made it through her first years of life and if I had to marry Edward to ensure her a good life, than so be it. I had to grow up.
"So, what do I do until then? It's two weeks until my birthday, until my marriage begins," I spit out the word marriage, no matter how much I had talked myself into marriage, it still didn't set well with me.
"We start moving your things over to his place, you'll stay here until your birthday," Charlie said.
I love the fact that I can be mad at everybody, because I can blame my hormones and I'm so freaking glad I can blame them on other things as well, even if my appitite is this weird even when I'm not pregnant.
"Since I'm being forced into this fucking marriage, I want a pickle, peanut butter and jelly sandwich," I said, causing Jasper to finally drop his amused look and laugh a hearty, loud laugh, that nearly relaxed me. "Who is going to make it for me?"
My birthday deadline was looming, I hadn't tried to keep the date at the forefront of my mind, but my father was making sure that the date stayed there, he'd tacked a calendar up on the fridge, with my birthdate circle with little bells drawn under it.
Not much at school had changed, I hadn't told anybody, not Rosalie, not Angela and not Alice about my upcoming marriage to my orchestra teacher. Of course I wanted all of them to be there as I vowed to love and cherish him, that way, they could keep me from bolting from the courthouse, or cussing out the judge.
I wanted to tell Angela so bad, I needed somebody on my side, but I just couldn't bring myself to tell her, she'd just started dating our first chair cello Ben Cheney and was in that happy stage because she'd been crushing on him for longer than I'd known them.
"Earth to mommy," Jason said as Angela and I headed towards the music room for home room.
"Sorry," I mumbled as I was pulled out of my thoughts. "Just a lot going on."
"Yea, you're what? Eight weeks away from the big day?"
"Ten, but the doc says she could come earlier than ten or later than that."
"How's the nursery?" Heather asked as we set down at our seats.
"It's coming along well, Jazz's wife has offered to come over and help decorate it," I said.
I didn't meantion that it was already done because when I moved into the home that Edward was renting, I was going to be sleeping in the nursery until I could figure out a way to divorce him.
"That's cool, you're so lucky that you are getting to have a kid," Heather said.
"Trust me, not as fun as you think. I feel like a watermelon is shoved inside me and I'm ready for the little one to hurry up so I can start working towards her eighteen years."
"Still, it seems like fun, to have somebody who will love you even when the times get tough."
"I do believe all kids middle names are tough," I laughed.
"Speaking of names," Jason said. "Have you picked any?"
"No, I'm still trying to find that perfect name, I figure when I see her I'll know. I think I'm going to pick out three or four and when I see her I just know."
"Alright guys," Edward came in from his office and I swear, he wore that fucking shirt just to make my hormones go crazy.
The shirt was a black button down, the top few buttons undo, and it was tucked into his black trousers. My heart was pumping heavily and I was worried I'd start drooling over him if he didn't leave.
I was elbowed in the gut by Angela and I shot her a glare and she shot me one back, her eyes darting between Edward and I.
"Bella," Edward was saying and I finally faced him, an innocent smile on my face.
"Whatever it is, Mr. C, I didn't do it," I smiled. Let's just say I need to start fucking with his head.
"I was actually going to wish you a happy birthday," Edward said. "I'm going to be gone tomorrow and I wanted you to know that."
"Thanks," I muttered.
I hadn't realized Edward was capable of saying a nice thing to me, when I'd nearly destroyed his life.
"So, yes, I'm going to be gone, tomorrow, but this doesn't mean," Edward was saying, Jason quickly raised his hand. "Yes, Jason?"
"Are we playing?"
"Yes, my motto is, we will always play," Edward smiled at him. "Ms. Z, will be teaching class tomorrow."
The room filled with groans and moans, Edward took this chance to look at me with a discreet wink.
"Can we just play," I said, my mood shifting rapidly.
"Yea," Angela said. "Mommy here has mood swings."
I knew Angela was just teasing me, but that wink had put me in a bad mood.
"No, Bella," Edward said. "This is homeroom and I have some announcements to go over."
Yea, so I did the childish thing and stuck my tongue out at him, everybody knew he was my brother's best friend and knew that we teased each other, they just didn't understand that in twenty four hours, this man would be my husband.
"So," Angela said after we were released from orchestra and we were on our way to earth science. "What was that little wink for?"
"You saw?"
"Of course," Angela laughed.
"Let's skip, I don't want to be here today and we can go get food and go see Alice, with Jazz here, she's home alone."
"Sure," Angela said, heading towards the parking lot and we slid into her car. "So, wink?"
"We're getting married," I sighed.
"Married? To a teacher? That's not legal."
"Yea, it is. His lawyer has been going over each law that has to deal with this. I had to tell the school that yes, Edward is the father, no I had no clue that he was working at Forks when I slept with him and that we'd been friends since I was born. Is it weird that you husband held you in his arms just hours after you came out of the womb?"
"A little," Angela agreed.
We didn't talk as we headed towards Subway, where I got an oven roasted chicken on Italian with provolone cheese and olives and mayo.
"Yum," I said as I was handed the sandwich. I paid for Alice's as well and Angela had hers made then we headed towards my sister-in-laws.
"So, are you going to sleep in the same bed as him?" Angela asked as we drove the mile to Alice's house.
"As much as I want to hump him right now, I won't sleep in the same bed as him," I said.
I wouldn't sleep in the same bed as him, I don't love him, I'm not sure I could ever love him, because he is forcing me to marry him just because he wants to do right by our daughter, he doesn't even care about me, he just wants his family to know he's done the right thing.
I was just the stupid seventeen year old that he'd knocked up and now he was paying the ultimate price to uphold his honor. He was marrying me so I wouldn't be raising my daughter by myself.
"You okay? You zoned out for a second," Angela said as we pulled up to the curb in front of Alice's house.
"Fine, just worried over tomorrow and the days and years to follow."
I got out, grabbing both sandwiches and headed up to the front door, ring the bell and waiting for Alice.
I smiled as a burly guy with brown hair in a buzz cut open the door.
"Hi," I said as I strolled past him and into the living room of the house. "Alice, get down here."
Alice came downstairs as she was wrapping her hair around her head.
"Damn it, Emmett, I said to wait until I was clear of the shower head before you turned the thing on."
"I just wanted to get you wet," Emmett laughed with his deep gruff. "All hot and bothered now, aren't you my little pixie."
"Go to hell," Alice said and her face lit up as she saw me. "Bella, what a surprise, skipping school again, I see."
"You do this often?" Angela said.
"Yup, if I'm tired or something I just come over," I laughed.
"I don't tell the rent's or I guess in her case, the husband."
"He's more like the dick who knocked me up, those were his words, not mine and we're not married yet, something might happen to make him not want to marry me. Emmett, how are things going?"
"Doing well, how's our little bun in the oven, I had to wonder if it was mine, but I'm not your teacher, so I can't possibly be the daddy."
"What are you even doing in town?"
"Coach Raven quite, didn't you hear? Or have you been fucking your orchestra teacher to much to notice that the head coach quite?"
"Emmett," I warned, but Alice walked up behind him and whipped him with the towel, I was sure it stung.
"Stop being such an ass. Brothers," Alice glanced at me. "How do you live with them? He needs to get off his lazy ass and find a job."
"If you'd hear me out, I'm telling you that I'm the new head coach for the Forks High Vikings."
I smiled, that was a good thing, maybe then our team would actually win a game this season, we had won one game each season in the last three years, maybe Emmett was just the things we needed.
I stayed at Alice's for the rest of the day, not worrying if my brother would hunt down dad or Edward and I'd be scolded for skipping, I'd simply tell them that I was tired and needed to rest, if Edward had any sense, he'd let me be, dad didn't seem to even really care any more, he just grunted at me, I almost wish I was getting the complete silent treatment.
"Hey, Em," I said. "You're only twenty-one, how are you coaching already?"
"Remember when I tore my ACL? Well, I helped Ravens coach that year and he called to tell me that he was quitting and that he'd put my name into the hat for new head coach, I'm not sure how I got it, I did and I'm happy to be here."